kernel/include/linux/kho/abi/memfd.h, branch master

kho: relocate vmalloc preservation structure to KHO ABI header

2026-01-27T03:07:12Z

The `struct kho_vmalloc` defines the in-memory layout for preserving vmalloc regions across kexec. This layout is a contract between kernels and part of the KHO ABI. To reflect this relationship, the related structs and helper macros are relocated to the ABI header, `include/linux/kho/abi/kexec_handover.h`. This move places the structure's definition under the protection of the KHO_FDT_COMPATIBLE version string. The structure and its components are now also documented within the ABI header to describe the contract and prevent ABI breaks. [rppt@kernel.org: update comment, per Pratyush] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aW_Mqp6HcqLwQImS@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260105165839.285270-6-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Miu Co-developed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Alexander Graf Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Pasha Tatashin Cc: Pratyush Yadav Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kho/abi: memfd: make generated documentation more coherent

2026-01-27T03:07:11Z

memfd preservation ABI description starts with "This header defines" which is fine in the header but reads weird in the generated html documentation. Update it to make the generated documentation coherent. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260105165839.285270-3-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Alexander Graf Cc: Jason Miu Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Pasha Tatashin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd

2025-11-27T22:24:41Z

The ability to preserve a memfd allows userspace to use KHO and LUO to transfer its memory contents to the next kernel. This is useful in many ways. For one, it can be used with IOMMUFD as the backing store for IOMMU page tables. Preserving IOMMUFD is essential for performing a hypervisor live update with passthrough devices. memfd support provides the first building block for making that possible. For another, applications with a large amount of memory that takes time to reconstruct, reboots to consume kernel upgrades can be very expensive. memfd with LUO gives those applications reboot-persistent memory that they can use to quickly save and reconstruct that state. While memfd is backed by either hugetlbfs or shmem, currently only support on shmem is added. To be more precise, support for anonymous shmem files is added. The handover to the next kernel is not transparent. All the properties of the file are not preserved; only its memory contents, position, and size. The recreated file gets the UID and GID of the task doing the restore, and the task's cgroup gets charged with the memory. Once preserved, the file cannot grow or shrink, and all its pages are pinned to avoid migrations and swapping. The file can still be read from or written to. Use vmalloc to get the buffer to hold the folios, and preserve it using kho_preserve_vmalloc(). This doesn't have the size limit. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-15-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav Co-developed-by: Pasha Tatashin Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Tested-by: David Matlack Cc: Aleksander Lobakin Cc: Alexander Graf Cc: Alice Ryhl Cc: Andriy Shevchenko Cc: anish kumar Cc: Anna Schumaker Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Chanwoo Choi Cc: Chen Ridong Cc: Chris Li Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Daniel Wagner Cc: Danilo Krummrich Cc: Dan Williams Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Jeffery Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Guixin Liu Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Ilpo Järvinen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Joanthan Cameron Cc: Joel Granados Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Lennart Poettering Cc: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Lukas Wunner Cc: Marc Rutland Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Matthew Maurer Cc: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Myugnjoo Ham Cc: Parav Pandit Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Saeed Mahameed Cc: Samiullah Khawaja Cc: Song Liu Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Stuart Hayes Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Thomas Weißschuh Cc: Vincent Guittot Cc: William Tu Cc: Yoann Congal Cc: Zhu Yanjun Cc: Zijun Hu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton